Authorised Guide to the Tower of London

ad the execution of Simou Lord Lovat in 1746, the execu
tion axe, dating from about the year 1660, some instruments
of punishment, used for confining prisoners, and a
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model of the rack as it existed in the Tower in 1809.
Leading out of the Crypt is the "Record Room '' which
0 contains relics of the burning of the Storehouse in 1841,
d two carved figures called " Gin " and " Beer," brought
e from the Buttery of the Royal Palace of Greenwich, at
w the end of the seventeenth century, the cloak on which
General Wolfe died at Quebec, in 1759, the coat worn by
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h the Duke of Wellington as Constable of the Tower, the
Collar of SS used at the funeral of the Duke of Marlborough
and portions of the State barge of the Master
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General of· the Ordnance. Prints, models, photographs
and drawings of the White Tower and the Armouries
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are shown in this room. In the centre is the gun,
carriage and limber, used at the funeral of King
Edward VII, in the procession between Westminster
Hall and Paddington on the 20th of May, 1910. The
case near the door contains swords presented by our
Allies in the present war, swords of the Duke of York,
son of George III, and of Lord Wolseley, and the
revolver of Lord Roberts.
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The Parade.
The Waterloo Barracks on the north side were built
in 1845 on tb e site of the Great Storehouse burnt in
1841. The building of similar character to the right
is the Officers' Quarters : between the two a glimpse is
obtained of the Martin Tower, whence Blood stole the
crown in 1671.
Observe, on the right, almost adjoining the Barrack,
the Chapel of St. Peter " ad Vincula," so called from
having been consecrated on that well-known festival of
the Latin Church, the 1st of August, probably in the
reign of Henry I (1100-11 35). The chapel was rebuilt
at the end of the thirteenth ceutury. It was burnt in
1512 and almost entirely rebuilt, and has since then
undergone a great deal of repair. It was considered a